Apache virtualhost with subdomain issue on windows server

Question

Can someone help me with this issue please. On my windows server, I have published a website made with wordpress with apache on port 80 (www.mysite.com). On the other hand, I have another web site on the same server and it is published on IIS port 8001 (as localhost:8001).

I need my www.mysite.com/subsite subdomain to point to localhost:8001. I have tried something like:

<VirtualHost *: 80>
 ServerName www.mysite.net
 ServerAlias mysite.net
 ProxyRequests on
 <Location />
   ProxyPass "http://localhost:8001/"
   ProxyPassReverse "http://localhost:8001/"
 </Location>
</VirtualHost>

I have also tried with:

<virtualHost *: 80>
      DocumentRoot \www\mysite\subsite
      ServerName "http://localhost:8001/"
</virtualHost>

In both cases it doesn't work for me. Can someone help me please, I'm new to this apache configuration

Thanks a lot in advance

Answer 1

Don't enable ProxyRequests for a reverse proxy, this is only needed for a forward proxy (default is Off ).

Remove the space before 80 and add ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.mysite.net
    ServerAlias mysite.net
    ServerAlias www.mysite.com

    ProxyPass        /subsite http://localhost:8001
    ProxyPassReverse /subsite http://localhost:8001
</VirtualHost>

I added ServerAlias www.mysite.com since you mentioned that this is your domain (or swap ServerName and ServerAlias with www.mysite.net ).

If you want to proxy the requests only for www.mysite.com , you can use two VirtualHosts:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.mysite.net
    ServerAlias mysite.net
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.mysite.com

    ProxyPass        /subsite http://localhost:8001
    ProxyPassReverse /subsite http://localhost:8001
</VirtualHost>

You may also want to add logging using the ErrorLog and CustomLog directives (copy and adapt the lines from the default configuration).

You need to enable modules mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http in your server and restart Apache.